Yvonne (Sylvia Chang) is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family.

Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance for true love. However, she falls for the last person a Chinese family would ever accept, Jose (Esai Morales), a Hispanic dentist. To make matters worse, Yvonne’s 70-year-old mother hurts her back in a massage accident, and uses her suffering to guilt all her children into doing her bidding.

Now, to find true happiness, Yvonne must overcome her three demanding siblings, 5,000 years of conservative Chinese tradition, and one tyrannical mother who is about to undergo major back surgery!